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The following SFX / VFX collections have all been put together by Skunk (http://forums.ffshrine.org/member.php?u=137375), so thank her. She lives in Europe and doesn't even have the game yet. She deserves a lot of thanks for having the determination and patience to put all of this together. This post will be updated as she continues to sort through and tag new sound packs. You can visit her thread here (Thread 51759) for the latest updates and to let her know how much you appreciate all of the work she is putting into these sounds packs.

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Super Mario Bros.


Mario (http://www.filefactory.com/file/bb6361/)
Luigi (http://www.filefactory.com/file/e57340/)
Peach (http://www.filefactory.com/file/8db876/)
Bowser (http://www.filefactory.com/file/837341/)

Donkey Kong


Donkey Kong (http://www.filefactory.com/file/d1098a/)
Diddy Kong (http://www.filefactory.com/file/fa05f3/)

The Legend of Zelda


Link (http://www.filefactory.com/file/31095c/)
Zelda (http://www.filefactory.com/file/551255/) / Sheik (http://www.filefactory.com/file/924507/)
Ganondorf (http://www.filefactory.com/file/ae80a5/)
Toon Link (http://www.filefactory.com/file/08940f/)

Metroid


Samus (http://www.filefactory.com/file/f9bfbd/) (also includes Zero Suit Samus)

Yoshi's Island


Yoshi (http://www.filefactory.com/file/464618/)

Kirby


Kirby (http://www.filefactory.com/file/24a44a/)
Meta Knight (http://www.filefactory.com/file/698cdc/) / Meta Knight (JP) (http://www.filefactory.com/file/e3b2dc/)
King Dedede (http://www.filefactory.com/file/60b2d6/)


Star Fox


Fox (http://www.filefactory.com/file/bc6289/) / Fox (JP) (http://www.filefactory.com/file/44d9b7/)
Falco (http://www.filefactory.com/file/1125c5/) / Falco (JP) (http://www.filefactory.com/file/000ba3/)
Wolf (http://www.filefactory.com/file/ec57d9/) / Wolf (JP) (http://www.filefactory.com/file/583a55/)

Pok�mon


Pikachu (http://www.filefactory.com/file/f8e284/)
Pok�mon Trainer (http://www.filefactory.com/file/b4d6d3/) / Pok�mon Trainer (JP) (http://www.filefactory.com/file/86f21b/)
Lucario (http://www.filefactory.com/file/1a7924/) / Lucario (JP) (http://www.filefactory.com/file/ee4ca3/)
Jigglypuff (http://www.filefactory.com/file/f2d747/) / Jigglypuff (JP) (http://www.filefactory.com/file/ad0cd8/)

F-Zero


Captain Falcon (http://www.filefactory.com/file/44d92f/)

EarthBound (Mother)


Ness (http://www.filefactory.com/file/80aabb/)
Lucas (http://www.filefactory.com/file/494c1d/)

Fire Emblem


Marth (http://www.filefactory.com/file/bf373a/)
Ike (http://www.filefactory.com/file/ffbefc/) / Ike (JP) (http://www.filefactory.com/file/3087c5/)

Kid Icarus


Pit (http://www.filefactory.com/file/dac8d9/) / Pit (JP) (http://www.filefactory.com/file/fdffbc/)


WarioWare, Inc.


Wario (http://www.filefactory.com/file/0c885b/)

Pikmin


Olimar (http://www.filefactory.com/file/ff5421/)

Nintendo


Ice Climbers (http://www.filefactory.com/file/0704be/)
R.O.B. (http://www.filefactory.com/file/506d68/)
Mr. Game & Watch (http://www.filefactory.com/file/cb7d8d/)

Metal Gear Solid


Snake (http://www.filefactory.com/file/383725/) / Snake (JP) (http://www.filefactory.com/file/553bf4/)

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG


Sonic (http://www.filefactory.com/file/638cd1/) / Sonic (JP) (http://www.filefactory.com/file/962d98/)

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Boss Battles

Crazy Hand (http://www.filefactory.com/file/c73c79/)
Duon (http://www.filefactory.com/file/9280cb/)
Galleom (http://www.filefactory.com/file/26aa95/)
Master Hand (http://www.filefactory.com/file/fa0630/)
Meta Ridley (http://www.filefactory.com/file/1cf41e/) / Falcon Flyer (http://www.filefactory.com/file/69ef9a/)
Petey Pirahana (http://www.filefactory.com/file/121182/)
Porky (http://www.filefactory.com/file/ad6d53/)
Rayquaza (http://www.filefactory.com/file/253959/)
Ridley (http://www.filefactory.com/file/b73d20/)
Tabuu (http://www.filefactory.com/file/cc99a6/)

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Miscellanous


Narrator (http://www.filefactory.com/file/b61aab/) / Narrator (JP) (http://www.filefactory.com/file/34b733/)
Audience / Audience (JP) (http://www.filefactory.com/file/6e7650/)
Assist Trophies (http://www.filefactory.com/file/ef122c/)
Pok�ball Pok�mon (http://www.filefactory.com/file/d42ff2/) / Pok�ball Pok�mon (JP) (http://www.filefactory.com/file/ad2df3/)

This thread now includes the links to all of the SFX / VFX put together by Skunk (http://forums.ffshrine.org/member.php?u=137375) and will be updated accordingly. She gets full credit for putting all of these sound clips together, so thank her!

I should also note that all of the music I personally ripped, converted, and tagged with the proper English track names.
I really feel that with this soundtrack 1 loop is better than 2, especially for vocal tracks.

Does anyone know everything that plays in the "Famicom Medley" track? Help me identify all of the games included in it.

0:01 - 0:02 - Super Mario Bros. 3
0:03 - 0:20 - Wrecking Crew
0:25 - 0:28 - Excite Bike
0:29 - 0:43 - Punch Out!!
0:44 - 0:56 - Soccer
0:56 - 1:05 - Devil World
1:06 - 1:15 - Punch Out!!
1:16 - 1:29 - Joy Mecha Fight
1:30 - 1:33 - Duck Hunt
1:34 - 1:46 - Donkey Kong Jr.
1:47 - 1:54 - Famicom Tantei Club (Part II)
1:55 - 2:03 - Urban Champion

Edit: All games have been identified. =)

It's okay if other people post in this thread too you know. ^^

This would be so amazing if it was Rapidshare links, but thanks a lot for your hard work.

This would be so amazing if it was Rapidshare links, but thanks a lot for your hard work.

Why? Does FileFactory not work for you?

This is a lot of goodness, thanks Capt. Cyantre.

This is a lot of goodness, thanks Capt. Cyantre.

You're welcome. I hope you are enjoying the music. =)

This is extremely organized. I love it very much in this format. I really did wish that I could've downloaded everything at once (Such as a torrent with a lot of seeds), but this is acceptable as well. I can try and assist you on the medley thing, as I know some NES songs. But it's probably going to end up in a failure. Thanks for upping this in such a nice way. :P

No problem, I definitely though there needed to be more organization after looking at some of the other threads. Also, having each song loop once makes everything sound so much better in my opinion. I love .torrents too, and I'd have this up with a link posted if I knew I was doing in making one.

I find it interesting that a majority of people are only downloading the first pack. I wonder if they believe that it contains everything because they haven't bothered to read the full post and download each pack individually. If someone would like to download all of the packs and make a .torrent I'll gladly post the link as well as seed the .torrent as well.

Why? Does FileFactory not work for you?

I think FileFactory doesn't work for him because you have to pay a membership fee before you can join and download the songs. At least that's my problem.

Umm... FileFactory is free. You don't have to pay. - I'm looking into RapidShare though too, see if I can't provide two sources for people to download these songs from.

Due to popular demand I'm also mirroring these files on RapidShare. The links are being updated as each file is uploaded.

can you convert these into .zip?

Umm... FileFactory is free. You don't have to pay. - I'm looking into RapidShare though too, see if I can't provide two sources for people to download these songs from.

...Whoops. My bad. Ok I figured it out now.

can you convert these into .zip?

No, just get WinRAR (http://www.rarsoft.com) it's free and easy to use.

There, all but two (the files over 100MB) have been uploaded to RapidShare and the links have been posted.
I'll break the other two files up into multiple archives so I can upload them to RapidShare tomorrow.

No, just get WinRAR (http://www.rarsoft.com) it's free and easy to use.

Hm... I can't get WinRAR to work... What exactly do I click on the page?

No, just get WinRAR (http://www.rarsoft.com) it's free and easy to use.

I'm using Mac. That might be the problem.

Hm... I can't get WinRAR to work... What exactly do I click on the page?

At the WinRAR homepage, go to Downloads, and download WinRAR 3.71.

It should look like this:

WinRAR 3.71 Graphic and command line Trial 1178 KB


Once you do, install it and you're all set. Right click the file and extract...I suppose that's really it.

EDIT: Oh, thanks. XD

RAR 3.71 for Mac OS X Command line only Trial 607 KB

Use that I suppose...Though it may be incompatible? o.o

Hey Cyantre, after managing to find out one tune you have no clue about (#5, which is Soccer), I resorted to Google. I found this, and it may seem right. You can always use the Hotel or here to find if it is though, it may be correct.

-SMB3
-Wrecking Crew
-Excite Bike
-Punch Out
-Soccer
-Devil World
-Punch Out
-Joy Mecha Fight
-Duck Hunt
-Donkey Kong Jr.
-Famicom Tantei Club 2
-Urban Champion

Thanks Starrodkirby86, I'll see if I can confirm that information. =)


I'm using Mac. That might be the problem.

Quoted for Truth :laugh:

FileFactory is way better than Rapidshare mainly due to the fact the after I'm done one download I can go right back do another instead of having to wait extended periods of time since I'm doing it for free.

Well that's why I'm keeping links for both up since people seem to have a preference. =)

Thank dude^^.

You're welcome. Out of all the threads on this forum this is the only one where the tracks are tagged with the official English track names as well the artist who arranged each track.

I changed my mind, unless there is a request for those two archives to be mirrored on RapidShare, you'll just have to get them on FileFactory.

At the WinRAR homepage, go to Downloads, and download WinRAR 3.71.

It should look like this:

WinRAR 3.71 Graphic and command line Trial 1178 KB


Once you do, install it and you're all set. Right click the file and extract...I suppose that's really it.

EDIT: Oh, thanks. XD

RAR 3.71 for Mac OS X Command line only Trial 607 KB

Use that I suppose...Though it may be incompatible? o.o

I ended up downloading UnRarX but thanks anyways. =)

Glad you figured out something that works for Mac.

Based on current downloads the "Kirby" music is the least popular. Hmm...

Random SSBB chit-chat is allowed here too. ;_;

Based on current downloads the "Kirby" music is the least popular. Hmm...
What is the most popular section then? :3

And I feel offended that Kirby's so low. I would do something about it when I feel like it. XD

So did that Famicom Medley list check out or you're still seeing? Soccer I know is correct, and the others sound reasonable. But the only source is by really verifying it.

Thank you so, so much for uploading this! I agree that looping x1 is more appropriate for this soundtrack. Most of these tracks are nothing short of spectacular.

I think the Zelda and Fire Emblem ones are my favorite.

My hat goes off to you, Cyantre. I'll definitely check this out.

What is the most popular section then? :3

The most popular are the first pack which is mostly original music for Super Smash Bros. Brawl and second place goes to the Super Mario Bros. tracks.


So did that Famicom Medley list check out or you're still seeing? Soccer I know is correct, and the others sound reasonable. But the only source is by really verifying it.

I've been able to confirm all of the tracks, your information was spot on, good job!

0:01 - 0:02 - Super Mario Bros. 3
0:03 - 0:20 - Wrecking Crew
0:25 - 0:28 - Excite Bike
0:29 - 0:43 - Punch Out!!
0:44 - 0:56 - Soccer
0:56 - 1:05 - Devil World
1:06 - 1:15 - Punch Out!!
1:16 - 1:29 - Joy Mecha Fight
1:30 - 1:33 - Duck Hunt
1:34 - 1:46 - Donkey Kong Jr.
1:47 - 1:54 - Famicom Tantei Club (Part II)
1:55 - 2:03 - Urban Champion

Thank you so, so much for uploading this! I agree that looping x1 is more appropriate for this soundtrack. Most of these tracks are nothing short of spectacular.

I think the Zelda and Fire Emblem ones are my favorite.

Just about any remix of music from a game I've played is my favorite. This is a great soundtrack and it sounds so much better as a whole with only one loop, I'm glad you think so too. =)

Has anyone tried downloading the Kirby pack from FileFactory? It seems odd that it has been up for 3 days and hasn't been downloaded yet, while all of the other packs have seen a fair amount of hits per day.

I tried the link and it works, at least it has been downloaded from RapidShare a few times.

Excellent, I really do like the way these files are named!
And yeah I've tried to Kirby files from FileFactory and it works fine.

But one thing, I know this is kind of small, but you kind of mixed up the two Jungle Levels. Ver. 2 should be the one with the people chanting at the beginning, but you have it the other way around.

Ahhh!

I just downloaded everything from Skunk's set and now I find something tagged even better? How did you tag the artist on non-arranged tracks? ;_;

(This soundtrack searching is frustrating)

Ahhh!

I just downloaded everything from Skunk's set and now I find something tagged even better? How did you tag the artist on non-arranged tracks? ;_;

(This soundtrack searching is frustrating)

I didn't. The game doesn't list an artist and neither do I, this make it much easier to figure out which tracks are arranged and which one are not. These are all taken directly from the information given in the in-game sound test so they are completely accurate. Also each song only loops once, which makes things much more amazing, especially because vocal tracks have very obvious loops. Having each track play once and fade-out makes things much better.

Excellent, I really do like the way these files are named!
And yeah I've tried to Kirby files from FileFactory and it works fine.

But one thing, I know this is kind of small, but you kind of mixed up the two Jungle Levels. Ver. 2 should be the one with the people chanting at the beginning, but you have it the other way around.

Wow, thanks so much for pointing this out! The problem has been corrected and the files have been reuploaded. =D

Oh, okay. I'll just tag them by original composer then, using Skunk's data. I might upload my mutant hybrid tags somewhere once I'm done shooting myself for being such a perfectionist.

Thanks! :3

Appreciated, but the quality isn't as good as other rips. Bitrate is fine, but the audio itself is a tad fuzzier.

Oh, okay. I'll just tag them by original composer then, using Skunk's data. I might upload my mutant hybrid tags somewhere once I'm done shooting myself for being such a perfectionist.

Thanks! :3

I don't think you need to upload anything if all you're doing is changing the tags. Lots of people are going to tweak the tags of anything they download anyway. Besides there are already so many different versions of this soundtrack floating around, that throwing another into the mix would be a little redundant.

Also I prefer to not mix and match the artist because in the case of this soundtrack artist = arranger, not composer. That's my personal preference. If the game gave credit to both the composer and the arranger, I'd have tag them differently, but sadly it does not. If a track has not been arranged it is simply listed as "Original", meaning the original version of the song without any arrangement.

Yeah, I suppose. But yeah, thanks for this, it's nice to not loop too many times :3

Oh, and I'd rather not tag anything as "Original" cuz that'd look real ugly on my last.fm feed

Oh, and I'd rather not tag anything as "Original" cuz that'd look real ugly on my last.fm feed

Yeah, I didn't either. I'd rather have it blank. That is just how Nintendo listed those tracks in the sound test, rather than dig up the information on who originally composed each tune. =/

Not to mention that if I want the original version when I'm picking out individual songs, I'll just use the track off of the OST of the original game it came from.

I don't really have an extensive soundtrack collection, and the album will be tagged Brawl anyways. I just need an artist so it'll scrobble.

Uh, so I have an odd request for you. Don't feel like I'm trying to obligate you or anything, but can you zip up all the tracks with vocals into one folder and upload it? I don't mind the multiple loops as long as there's no words and it would be a real pain to download all of yours just to pick out those ones.

Of course, if it would take too long to do by all means don't do it, it's just a request ^_^

For the rest I'm just going to edit the tracknames to match yours. Yours look a hell of a lot neater to me :D

Well there are a few songs from Metroid that have short vocal intros. A majority of the vocal tracks are from Sonic the Hedgehog. However, Pikmin and WarioWare, Inc. have some vocal songs too, but some in Japanese and French. Do you want those too?

May I ask why you want to just pick out the vocal tracks?

I already downloaded Skunk's whole soundtrack, and due to my fondness of electronica I've grown accustomed to longer songs, so I'm gonna keep the double loops. Though, as you said, for vocals it just ends up tedious.

And yeah, any vocal tracks, regardless of language and stuff please :)

EDIT: Oh, and can you throw melee stages - Battlefield in there too? Skunk's was corrupted.

Just give me a specific list of the tracks you want and I'll zip them up and upload it for you.

I'm thinking about uploading each track individually for download, would that be something everyone here would be interested in?

I'm thinking about uploading each track individually for download, would that be something everyone here would be interested in?

That would be a cool idea, Cyantre.

The first disc is now available with the option to download songs individually.
It will take me time to finish the remaining tracks, but soon you'll be able to pick and choose the tracks you wish to download, just give me a little time. =)

Oh, that would be wonderful! Then I could just use Flashgot and let it download 3 at a time all night instead of waiting for a rar to finish and queueing up the next (if I were to get them all). I should be able to find all the vocal tracks fine since you basically told me where they all are, so that's another plus.

Thanks, you're a doll :D

EDIT: Oh wait, still Filefactory. Couldn't you just put them up on your hosting or do you think you'd end up with too much server strain?

That would definitely be too much bandwidth for me. This is the best I can do within reason.

This will take some time, does anyone have any specific album request to be done individually?

This will take some time, does anyone have any specific album request to be done individually?

Well...


Well there are a few songs from Metroid that have short vocal intros. A majority of the vocal tracks are from Sonic the Hedgehog. However, Pikmin and WarioWare, Inc. have some vocal songs too, but some in Japanese and French. Do you want those too?

May I ask why you want to just pick out the vocal tracks?

Considering those are the ones I need... Metroid, Sonic, Pikmin, Fire Emblem and WarioWare I guess ^.^

Well the main theme for the game is a vocal track is you want to grab that now. After listening to the version that loops twice, I feel that if you want to listen to a song twice, listen to it twice. The point at which the song loops can be very obvious in this soundtrack and it can get a little annoying. Also the third disc is now up for individually download. I got the two of the three larger albums out of the way, so the process should move a little quicker now.

can you please get the american pokeball voices???

that would make my life complete :D

also, gannondorf is deleted..... can you look into this?

Skunk (http://forums.ffshrine.org/member.php?find=lastposter&t=49829) is the one who handles all of the SFX, you can go and ask her.

God damn, retagging this is harder than I thought. Yours and Skunk's don't even seem to match up at all with names or original games :\

God damn, retagging this is harder than I thought. Yours and Skunk's don't even seem to match up at all with names or original games :\

Well I have a completely different track order and my names match those given in the US version of the game. I don't think anyone here besides me has the correct and updated English titles. If you're going to try and mix and match it's going to take you quite a while. You'd probably just be better off getting my version, as everything is already tagged correctly and the quality of the MP3s are higher. If you want to listen to a song twice, just listen to it twice. Most of the tracks are long enough in just the one loop, which is why the two loops version felt excessive, it also took up 2x as much space.

I can usually get it down to 8/10 of a pack, but then the last two have completely different names. The main difference is when Skunk named something medley and you named it right.

Oh well! I'll get as much as I can done and then tackle the rest when I'm reunited with my Wii :)

I can usually get it down to 8/10 of a pack, but then the last two have completely different names.

Well Skunk has been too busy with SFX to update the tracks names, though I think someone else in that thread is suppose to manage that. Whatever the case, I wasn't happy with what was offered so I re-encoded and re-organzied everything.

Huh, most of them seem to be pretty close past the Super Mario pack. In the Kirby and Yoshi packs she had an extra in each, that's all :)

This is fun. I love retagging!

I think you've miscounted on the # of Kirby tracks, as far as the extra Yoshi's Island track I have it listed in miscellanous as E07 since it is not listed in the sound test. Her files are organized by the prefix of the files on the disc, mine are organized in the order they appear in the in-game sound test.

Couldn't find a match for the following:

Squeak Battle - Kirby: Squeak Squad
Easton Kingdom - Super Mario Land
Super Mario Bros. Medley
Bob-Omb Battle field

(You have
3-05 | Main Theme (Super Mario 64)
3-07 | Ground Theme 2 (Super Mario Bros.)
3-11 | Underground Theme (Super Mario Land)
)

Donkey Kong Medley - Donkey Kong
Stickerbrush Symphony - Donkey Kong Country

(You have
5-04 | Bramble Blast
5-09 | Opening (Donkey Kong)
)

Skunk's 3 Subspace steps are named wrong, and she has something tagged Danger Ahead! I can't match just yet. There's a disproportionate number of Boss Battle themes, or I was just too hasty. Couldn't find her All-Star Rest Area or Battlefield Ver.2. And then her Battlefield (Melee) was corrupt.

Other than that, she seems to have a myriad of things not included in sound test, extra theme for Sonic, KK themes, different arrangements and the like). A lot of this can be my human error too.

Like I said if it's not in the in-game sound test I have it listed in the miscellanous section. We all have the same songs, just organized differently. Since you're just trying to mix-and-match from two different sources you're going to have a very difficult time matching everything up and coming up with any semblance of organization. Her tags are outdated and mine come directly from the information in the US version of the game.

Curses. Well this is still odd then, because if some of those are just not sound test songs I wouldn't know where the soundtest songs are. I'll just fix these up when I get back to my Wii :)

Thanks so much for your help though! I'm down to around 20 that need fixings, and that's a good shot down from 250-some.

You could just download everything from me and save yourself the complication. ;P

If you look at the track list in my thread and Skunk's thread it shouldn't be too hard to decipher which track correlates to which. Just make sure you don't forget about the miscellaneous post in my thread when you're collecting songs. Most of those songs were left out of the sound test because they are short sound clips. Though some appear in the game elsewhere, like the Animal Crossing songs, but I have them listed in the miscellanous section with a prefix of N.

Well I've already gone this far! Plus, however strange, I liked the way that Skunk tagged the artists and that'd be even harder to mix and match.

I'm basically bogged down to my three mismatched Mario themes, two mismatched DK themes and than all the Subspace stuff.

Well she doesn't have a complete list of the artists who arranged each track, so in some cases only the composer is listed and this information is based on track details from other video game soundtracks. Since this soundtrack is compiled of so many different artist arranging original versions of tracks, I feel that is more important to tag the arranger as the artist than the composer.

Thankfully for some of the originals (like the NES ones) they would be the same person, but otherwise, I'll likely try and find arrangers myself too.

Thank god for your individual tracks too. Fixing tags is almost done for non-subspace stuff.

All of my tracks are tagged with the arrangers unless it is an original track. If you need to check here (http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1017404&postcount=209) and you'll see the information I posted. That might help in your efforts to mix-and-match.

Perfect, I'll keep that in mind.

This is all I seem to have left, and strangely enough these don't exactly match any of your other things so I assume they're out of sound test:

DK Island Swing (Subspace Emissary Version)
Airship Fortress (Subspace Emissary Version)
Data Selection Screen (Subspace Emissary Version)
Brinstar (Subspace Emissary Version)
Ambient Sounds

There's also a couple of results screens, but I named them with my own discretion. All this sound plausible for sound-test tracks?

I'll be back tomorrow- I need to get the Battlefield Melee track, vocal tracks and a couple of songs (like Boss Battle Song 1) that really do sound annoying looped too much.

Thanks! I should sleep now :3

EDIT: Self-reminder, grab Battlefield (Melee) and delete my old Melee soundtrack where applicable.

All of those tracks are listed in my miscellanous section.

The first (12) discs are up for individual download, I'll work on the rest tomorrow.

can you please get the american pokeball voices???

that would make my life complete :D

Skunk updated her thread, so I also updated the links here accordingly. The files you requested are available for download.

Hey Cyantre,

Can you indicate which songs come from the Subspace Emissary Solo game play? Been playing through that part of the game and it has a lot of cool songs, but your soundtrack is freakin' huge and can't tell which comes from where in the game. :)

Everything on the first disc contains original tunes new for Super Smash Bros. Brawl, so all of the SSE songs would be there.

Finally, now you can download all tracks individually if you wish to! Happy downloading!

@mattgcn

Whatever you want to download, now you can pick and choose the tracks you want to download. I hope more people find this useful as well.

Thanks! You've been a great help!

I'll try and match the other songs I have with the ones in your misc section to be sure I have everything alright.

EDIT: Damn, what are all those Fs? I guess I have to download the misc zip

I'm not to good with all this technical stuff, but how do you convert it into an iTunes/iPod compatible format?

iTunes can play .mp3 files, so I assume you need help with the .rar files. Those need to be extracted using a program such as WinRAR (http://www.rarsoft.com).

I'm working on tagging the misc, if you want to use it. It's based on Skunk's names mostly, but it's just to get a general idea if you want to change it around. I'm going to leave the WarioWare and KK themes till later because I don't want to have to play each and match yet. I'll also leave artist to your own discretion I guess, since Skunk's mostly seem to be the composer/arranger for Brawl listed.

Data file ~ Track name
E07_ATHLETIC2 ~ Obstacle Course Ver.2
M09_WARIOSTAGE
M10_WARIOSTAGE
M11_WARIOSTAGE
M12_WARIOSTAGE
M13_WARIOSTAGE
M14_WARIOSTAGE
M15_WARIOSTAGE
M16_WARIOSTAGE
M17_WARIOSTAGE
M18_WARIOSTAGE
N07_KEKE01
N08_KEKE02
N09_KEKE03
N10_KEKE04
N11_KEKE05
N12_KEKE06
R03_ELECTRO ~ Electroplankton
T05_DXTERMINAL ~ Master Hand Battle
X06_KEKKA ~ Classic: Results Screen for Master Hand's Death
X17_HUNDRED ~ Brawl Main Theme Arranged (this one could be better... I'm not sure where it's actually used in game)
X22_CHRONICLE ~ Classic Mode Clear
X24_HOW2PLAY ~ How To Play (Obviously, and this wasn't in your zip it seems)
[These ones I'm sure the title can be a bit better. Especially the third. Help me out.]
Y09_ADV09 ~ DK Island Swing (Subspace Emissary Version)
Y10_ADV10 ~ Airship Fortress (Subspace Emissary Version)
Y11_ADV11 ~ Data Selection Screen (Subspace Emissary Version)
Y13_ADV13 ~ Brinstar (Subspace Emissary Version)
Y16_ADV16 ~ Ambient Sounds {It's just noise anyway}
Y17_ADV17 ~ Results Screen {Maybe put "Subspace Level Clear"? I'm not sure exactly where it's used}

[These are all victory songs. Name after first character or game series I guess. Duplicates omitted]
Z01_FMARIO
Z02_FDONKEY
Z03_FLINK
Z04_FSAMUS
Z05_FYOSSY
Z06_FKIRBY
Z07_FFOX
Z08_FPIKACHU
Z10_FCAPTAIN
Z11_FNESS
Z16_FICHICLIMBER
Z17_FMARTH
Z18_FGAMEWATCH
Z21_FWARIO
Z22_FMETAKNIGHT
Z23_FPITT
Z25_FPIKMIN
Z35_FROBOT
Z46_FSNAKE
Z47_FSONIC
Z50_JCONTINUE ~ Continue?
Z51_JGO ~ Game Over
Z54_JFIGUREGET ~ New Trophy!
Z55_JRAREFIGURE ~ New Playable Character! (or is it "New Rare Trophy!"? Someone find where this is used)
Z56_FINCOMING ~ Coins! (simple name, eh? :P)
Z57_JYOUSO1 ~ Special Message (blah)
Z58_JYOUSO2 ~ Stage / Game Mode Unlocked (you tell me?)

Thanks, but I'm just going to keep the names as is. X24 is actually a blank file, which is why I didn't include it, it's just silence.

I appreciate the suggestion, but I'm using the official track names or nothing. I'm meticulous like that. =/

However all of the KK songs are tagged correctly as they do appear tagged in the game, they just aren't in the sound test.

Ah, well that's fine then. The names for the KK and WarioWare tracks are in Skunk's thread, and can be tagged as such if people feel like finding which is which. If you do notice one of those songs somewhere, do let me know in the case of my bad tagging choice.

Now that I'm done tagging (for the most part), the hunt for tracks to replace begins. Woo!

Good luck. I also updated my miscellaneous section post. When I first edited the post today I copied more information from the file list than I should have. Most of those files were never included on the disc, hence could not be extracted since there was nothing there to extract.

@mattgcn
if you could, could you edit your post too, just to avoid confusion.

The two tracks I declared "missing" you mean, or what? Also in this post (http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1017404&postcount=209), the ones marked "---" are the ones with no arranger listed, correct? I'll keep most of those like Skunk's are if so, and try and do a search for the actual arranger and whatnot to be sure. Some of your "arranger" dealies are shorter than Skunk's so I'll fix those up too.

Gosh, not many people on last.fm put effort in their tags. Most of them are like... "SSB X Sound Team" or "Super Smash Bros. Brawl" ._.

Everything I have tagged as far as arranger is 100% correct, anything extra tagged by Skunk is pure speculation as it was all tagged before the game was released in the US.
Yes, everything with a "---" for artist is not an arranged track, but the original version of the song.

I meant most of your post from before about the miscellaneous data, all that snd_bgm stuff.

I just read about Totaka's Song and now I'm trying to find in SSBB. =)

Currently the most popular tracks (based on individual song downloads) are:

1-01 | Super Smash Bros. Brawl Main Theme
1-06 | Final Destination
5-04 | Bramble Blast
11-07 | Dialga / Palkia Battle at Spear Pillar!
1-25 | Step: Subspace Ver.2
1-28 | Boss Battle Song 2
9-03 | Gourmet Race

Thanks, man. You've helped satisfy my out-of-game listening urges.

You're welcome. I'm glad that I was able to help.

Cyantre, I seem to be having a problem that someone had in your old thread. The downloads sound scratchy, like the quality of the songs is not the same as in the game. I'm using WinRAR to extract the files onto my iTunes, where I then convert them to AAC files in order to download them onto my computer. Is anybody else having this problem w/ the music?

Cyantre, I seem to be having a problem that someone had in your old thread. The downloads sound scratchy, like the quality of the songs is not the same as in the game. I'm using WinRAR to extract the files onto my iTunes, where I then convert them to AAC files in order to download them onto my computer. Is anybody else having this problem w/ the music?

I don't know where you people are getting this from. Everything sounds perfectly fine to me. I'll tell you what I told the person before you I used the original .brstm files which contain the sound data taken off of the disc, then I convereted them into .wav files at 44.100 kHz, 16 Bit, Stereo. After that I encoded them into .mp3 files using LAME 3.97 with the following method (-V 0 --vbr-new)

Every effort has been made to ensure the highest quality for each file. Perhaps the quality is scratchy because of your conversion by changing them into AAC files.

I don't know where you people are getting this from. Everything sounds perfectly fine to me. I'll tell you what I told the person before you I used the original .brstm files which contain the sound data taken off of the disc, then I convereted them into .wav files at 44.100 kHz, 16 Bit, Stereo. After that I encoded them into .mp3 files using LAME 3.97 with the following method (-V 0 --vbr-new)

Every effort has been made to ensure the highest quality for each file. Perhaps the quality is scratchy because of your conversion by changing them into AAC files.

If I don't convert them to AAC and exit the ZIP folder with the music files, the music will not play on iTunes. Besides, it's scratchy even when I put them on iTunes as MPEG files (the MPEG files come from the download)

I'm going to try a different RAR extractor.

Why do you need to convert them? iTunes plays .mp3 files, just extract the files and drag-and-drop them into iTunes.

Has anyone here take any cool snapshots from the game? Any stage builders out there?

Okay, I edited my post and such, and I'm retagging the arranger stuff now.

Thanks for the help :)


Has anyone here take any cool snapshots from the game? Any stage builders out there?

No and yes. I've made some truly weird creations on that.

Do you about the bin2jpg program that allows you to convert snapshots into .jpg images to view on your computer?

Like, you put them on the SD card, bring onto computer and convert? I'll try it out when I get a working SD card.

In other news, so far I've found 55 files that are either too long when looped more than twice, or have vocals. I'm almost there, man! :)

Exactly, just do a Google seach for "bin2jpg" when you get an SD card.

Have fun with your tagging, glad to see you are almost there. Putting up all of the tracks individually seems to be a popular choice for a lot of people. I'm definitely noticing an increase in downloads since I added those. It took a while, but now that it's done I can see that it was worth it.

I have loads of spare bandwidth and I was thinking about uploading to my own webspace... how much bandwidth do you think the traffic from this thread would generate if I put up the whole thing (as individual files over rars) onto my space? Like, based on the downloads you've gotten so far here.

How much bandwidth do you have? I definitely think it would suck your bandwidth dry in a few days. I'm definitely geting more hits on the packaged files, but those have been up longer. I have the .rar files up for two reasons, the first being compression saves space and that means faster downloads, the second being I package an .nfo file with all of the information about the rip and where it came from. You also don't want people streaming them, because that would kill bandwidth as well.

Am I to take it that this is the definitive brawl soundtrack or the one in Skunk's thread. You seem to be sharing stuff so I'm a little confused as to if the definitive version is the one in this thread
or here: http://www.filefactory.com/f/477cec178988b845/
or here: Thread 51759

And to comment on your encoding -V0 doesn't help quality at all, it in fact hurts it as you are making it use more bits on parts you cant hear depriving the parts that need the quality. For any high bitrate (160kbps+) encodes -V2 --vbr-new -q0 is generally agreed to be the best. Some people like a --lowpass 19.7 as well to give VBR even more breathing room.

I updated the first post with a link to the full music list as posted on the official Super Smash Bros. Brawl web site.

There is no definitive thread.
My list is organized differently, tagged with the official track names, loops only once, the first post on the thread is organized better, and you may also download individual songs.

And to comment on your encoding -V0 doesn't help quality at all, it in fact hurts it as you are making it use more bits on parts you cant hear depriving the parts that need the quality. For any high bitrate (160kbps+) encodes -V2 --vbr-new -q0 is generally agreed to be the best. Some people like a --lowpass 19.7 as well to give VBR even more breathing room.

I wish I would have known that a few weeks ago. >_<

I could re-do this, but everyone is going to have their personal audio preference. Also it would take days to start from scratch to make this minor change.

Cyantre,

Thanks for the link to the Official Site's Music List site. That'll be very helpful in knowing what to download. Mostly interested in the re-arranged songs than the originals. :)

Cyantre,

Thanks for the link to the Official Site's Music List site. That'll be very helpful in knowing what to download. Mostly interested in the re-arranged songs than the originals. :)

No problem, it also shows more information such as which music plays on which stage, as well as letting you know which game the music originally came from.

X17_HUNDRED ~ Brawl Main Theme Arranged (this one could be better... I'm not sure where it's actually used in game)

I believe that songs come from (and is also called) Cruel Brawl. I recognize it from all those (agonizing) tries to get the Liquid Snake sticker.

Also Cyantre, I think you have the Shin Onigashima song looped twice, I believe the first loop ends around 1:48.

And the Battle Scene / Final Boss (Golden Sun) seems to be extended an extra minute. The first loop should end around 2:17, but it's kind of hard to tell since apparently, it doesn't loop back to the "Battle Scene" part of the song.

Sorry if I sound a little nit-picky, but it doesn't bother me much since those are both awesome songs! (And at least you know that someone is actively listening to them. :) )

It is possible, all I can do is tell in_cube.dll to have each song loop once, but I'm not sure how accurate it is in doing so.

I believe that songs come from (and is also called) Cruel Brawl. I recognize it from all those (agonizing) tries to get the Liquid Snake sticker.

Also Cyantre, I think you have the Shin Onigashima song looped twice, I believe the first loop ends around 1:48.

And the Battle Scene / Final Boss (Golden Sun) seems to be extended an extra minute. The first loop should end around 2:17, but it's kind of hard to tell since apparently, it doesn't loop back to the "Battle Scene" part of the song.

Sorry if I sound a little nit-picky, but it doesn't bother me much since those are both awesome songs! (And at least you know that someone is actively listening to them. :) )

Hmm or possibly "Multi-Man Brawl"? It could be used in more than one of them, perhaps, since the name says "HUNDRED" it could have been made for hundred man brawl first.

Anyone wanna confirm?

Umm... moderators, administrators,... care to take care of this? *points to previous post with obscene image*

Yay! The spam is gone, that was really vile. Glad it's been taken care of.

WTF was that spam? Glad to see that it's gone.

Sorry for complaining before, Cyantre. I listen to the files again and the scratchyness is barely noticeable. Thank you for the organized downloads. :)

WTF was that spam? Glad to see that it's gone.

Sorry for complaining before, Cyantre. I listen to the files again and the scratchyness is barely noticeable. Thank you for the organized downloads. :)

No problem. I don't mind the complaints, I just wanted you to know the process I went through in making them. I'm glad that they sound better now.

So would anyone here buy an official soundtrack if it were released?

I really appreciate the effort you put into this, but the quality just isn't as good as the other rip.

Being a sound tech myself, I have a very sensitive ear for these types of things, and I can't stand listening to poor quality audio.

Thanks for all the work you've done though. Just wish the other guy was as organized as you.

Well what suggestions would have for improving the audio quality?

For the most part I use Skunk's tracks, but I can't tell the difference anyway.

And yeah, I'd buy an official soundtrack mini-release (like highlight tracks), but I probably wouldn't spend my money on a full release.

As it is, it's encoded at PCM 16 bit, which isn't that good. I'd try for MPEG 3 Layer 3, at least 32000hz and 128kpbs. I'd recommend 44000hz 320kpbs.

Of course, the quality may also be entirely dependent on what hardware you used to do the actual ripping.

Well what is the other rip encoded at?
If I were to encode them using LAME what settings should I use for the best quality?

44000 hZ and 196 kbps would be my preference as far as ripping, but 320 would obviously be best quality. 196 is high quality while not being too big.

The other rip is at MPEG 3 Layer 3, 32000hz and 128kpbs. I'm not sure what setting to use for LAME, as I've never used it.

Also, since the master files have already been saved as PCM 16 bit, re-encoding won't make much of a difference in audio quality. I think the root of the poor quality is from the method you used to rip the files in the first place.

How did you do it anyways? Did you just record them using your mic/line in on your sound card? If so, what kind of sound card is it?

The files on the disc are .brstm files and there is a Winamp plug-in "in_cube.dll" which allows those files to be read in the first place.
Winamp has an option to convert any files to .wav files. So if I could figure out a way to go straight from .brstm to .mp3 I could probably improve the quality signifigantly.

Holy increase in quality Batman!

Yes, I know. All of the links are broken, that's because I took all of the files down. Expect a new higher-quality version in the next few days.

Cyantre, you're all kinds of awesome.

Cyantre, you're all kinds of awesome.

Thanks. ^^

The new version will also loop once, but the increase in quality is dramatic. For anyone who is familar with LAME, I used the --preset insane settings, which is basically the next best thing to loseless.

Going to WAV, then to MP3 will not affect quality in any way. That is of course assuming in_cube does 16-bit output which is very most likely.

--preset insane is all kinds of overkill, it'll make your rip huge with next to no benefits. As I said before you should be using VBR with something other than -V0 for the bitrates you should be aiming for.

As I said on the last page the standard switch for home listening is -V2 --vbr-new which is conveniently --preset fast standard. If you want to go down to the 160-180kbps range do -V3 --vbr-new and if you want to go up above 220kbps do -V1 --vbr-new

There have been several listening tests and as far as 16-bit audio is concerned "fast standard" is pretty much transparent.

Why? Does FileFactory not work for you?

The links are dead

Going to WAV, then to MP3 will not affect quality in any way. That is of course assuming in_cube does 16-bit output which is very most likely.

Actually, it does. The way Winamp creates .wav files, it does it in a way that degrades the quality. Once I went straight from .brstm to .mp3 the quality improved immensely. There are so many different options with LAME, and I did a bunch of research on the different settings. In the end I decided to go with the --preset insane option for a few reasons. First off it's the hightest possible quality next to loseless. The second reason is that this third or forth time I've tagged and organized these files from scratch, and I don't want to have to do it again.

It might be overkill, but everyone seems to have a specific preference for which encoding option to use. At least this way the quality is there, and if anyone really wants to down convert the files to save a little space, they can. So far everyone I've encounted cares more about the quality than anything else.

Once I finish this time, I'm done. Seriously.

That just implies that whatever tool is dumping the WAVs is totally retarded as WAV is lossless. I'd put my money on that WAV out being the source of your quality problems actually.

Seriously please read this hydrogenaudio take on the matter (http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Lame#Best_quality:_.22archiving.22 ). They know better than both you or I.

The rule of thumb when considering encoding options: at a given bitrate, VBR is higher quality than ABR, which is higher quality than CBR (VBR > ABR > CBR in terms of quality). The exception to this is when you choose the highest possible CBR bitrate, which is 320 kbps (-b 320 = --alt-preset insane), but this produces very large filesizes for very little audible benefit.


High quality: HiFi, home or quiet listening
-V3 --vbr-new (~175 kbps), -V2 --vbr-new (~190 kbps), -V1 --vbr-new (~210 kbps) or -V0 --vbr-new (~230 kbps) are recommended. These settings will produce transparent encoding (transparent = most people cannot distinguish the MP3 from the original in an ABX blind test). Audible differences between these presets exist, but are extremely rare.

I care about quality a lot, so does mattgcn and all he wanted is 196kbps. You can do insane if you want but I think it is only going to push more people to the other rip. I'd seriously eat my hat if you could tell the difference between -preset insane and -preset fast extreme.

There are also plenty of tools for extracting and inserting tags from/into MP3s. You shouldn't have to redo anything other than the file names which needed redoing anyway.

I know .wav is suppose to be loseless, but that is where I was running into problems.

Yes, I would have to rename everything again, and being that I just finished re-tagging and re-organizing, I'm done. If you don't want to download my version, don't download it. I'm tired of trying to please everyone. Like I said before, this is the last time I'm going back to encode the music from this game.

Songs are still going to be available for individual download once I re-upload everything, so it's not going to be an issue for those with a slow-connection. The overall file size hasn't jumped that dramatically, especially considering the huge increase in quality. Again, if you don't like it, don't download it, or down convert the files. I don't care anymore.

Blargh! (Thanks for the help, but understand my frustrations.)

All I asked was for you to make two MP3s with the two presets and judge for yourself if they sounded any different.

I do understand your frustrations, for something that sounds reasonably easy, ripping a game can be quite a difficult task. If I can recommend one thing for next time you try this it would be to automate the process. Doesn't seem that the brstm to wav tool is very stable yet sadly.

EDIT: Could you upload a sample brstm file for me?

I could barely tell the difference between my old version and the new version, so I'm not the best candidate for figuring out a difference between two files. I looked at the same web-site you showed me and there were a lot of options, but the one I chose was the highest quality, even though it is at the cost of a larger file size. It's practically lossless, and the only reason I didn't actually go with a lossless format is because I'd be bombarded with people asking how to play that type of file.

in_cube.dll is stable, it's just that Nullsoft DirectSound Output isn't that fantastic.

Honestly, I plan to convert these to 256kbps AAC files, because that's just my personal preference (for the 16,000 songs in my music library). So for any space-saving audiophiles out there, you can convert these to a lower bitrate if you choose. It'll be a hell of a lot easier than re-encoding, re-tagging, re-organizing, re-uploading, and re-posting all of this again.

Practically lossless is a bit of a misnomer. Its like saying almost alive. If that is practically lossless so is -preset fast extreme. My suggestions is before you invest in huge amounts of effort just do a sample track and see what people here think.

As for the brstm tool, I was talking about vgmstream which is looking to replace in_cube and has a command line tool that could be used to automate the conversion.

Isn't there a Nullsoft Diskwriter plugin for WAV out? I wasn't aware out_ds could dump to file.

Plus I'm sure "space-saving audiophile" is a high order paradox. ;)

I'm only posting here to educate so I hope I've done my job.

Practically lossless is a bit of a misnomer. Its like saying almost alive. If that is practically lossless so is -preset fast extreme.

No, not it's not! The method I've chosen is the absoultely highest possible quality you can set LAME to encode MP3 files. The website you linked to even confirmed this. I don't care to use --preset fast extreme because it isn't the absolute best quality. Just because you may not be able to hear any imperfections using --preset fast extreme, doesn't mean they don't exist. I know the same is true of an lossy format, but...


-b 320. This is the strongest setting for MP3, with the lowest risk of artifacts.

...and what the hell? The last time I used -V 0 --vbr-new which is the exact same f**ing thing as --preset fast extreme, and people were bitching at me! AAAHHHHHHH!


My suggestions is before you invest in huge amounts of effort just do a sample track and see what people here think.

I already told you in my last post that I finished everything already.

Do you know what? It's done, you're getting -b 320, it's done!

(Actually I just have to upload the .rar files and link to them, then it's done!)


Isn't there a Nullsoft Diskwriter plugin for WAV out? I wasn't aware out_ds could dump to file.

out_ds.dll can't out_disk.dll

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Edit: This thread is no longer active, please go to the new thread located here. Thread 53715

does anyone know where i can fin MP3's so i can get them on my ipod. just like the singlular versions, not in packs? D: i'm soo ubsessed

This thread is no longer active, please go to the new thread located here. Thread 53715

*sigh* Did you see the first post of this thread? I even added it in to the last post in this thread as well. The new thread is also currently on the front page. >_<;

Mr Cyantre... If i download the pkmn trainer voices, i get a AMP file. What's it and is it like a zip file and i don't have the codec. Can you maybe out the amp files of the voices into an Zip file i want those voices also in wave.file like the other voices.

*sigh* Did you see the first post of this thread? I even added it in to the last post in this thread as well. The new thread is also currently on the front page. >_<;

Hm. Is this music or voicepacks or character sound effects?

If it is character SFX I could use them for my videos.

I might not check back here, so email me at [email protected] if they are CSFX and you upload them. Needed in next 3 days. THANKS!

~AlphaicX

SOMEONE STOLE MY NAME DAMMIT!

HEY DOWNLOAD FAIL PLEASE NEW DOWNLOAD SFX PLEASE